Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

This digital collection features hundreds of Victorian and vintage photographic prints, and dates from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. Analog formats including Cartes-de-Visite, cabinet cards, and tintypes. The bulk of the collection comes from studios in Missouri and Kansas, while the remaining images span locations throughout the United States and Europe. The prints from Missouri photography studios were primarily created by Kansas City photographers.

Items in Collection: 460

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Kansas City History

Women’s History & Representation

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Card photograph of an elderly man with mustache wearing a coat with vest, bow tie and hat.

Visiting card vignette portrait of a man slightly profile in high-buttoned coat and bow tie with a illustration and decorative pinstripes surrounded the name and address of the photographer.

Vignette visiting card portrait of a man quarter profile in coat, vest, and bow tie.

Oval inset visiting card photograph of a man in dark coat, striped vest, and bow tie with the name and address of the studio printed on back.

Visiting card portrait of a man slightly profile in formal, low-buttoned coat, vest, and necktie with printed ad for the photo studio on back.

Oval inset visiting card portrait of a man in low vest and unbuttoned dark suit with the name and address of the photographer printed on back.

Visiting card portrait of a man slightly profile in closed dark coat and necktie with a printed illustration on the back.

Vignette visiting card portrait of a man with mustache in formal coat and vest with an illustration of the photographer on back atop the name and address of the studio.

Visiting card portrait of a mustachioed man with right arm on pedestal with illustration featuring name and address of studio printed on back.

Digital Collections

Victorian Studio Portrait Photograph Collection

Elderly man with mustache

Man high-buttoned coat and bow tie

Man in coat, vest, and bow tie

Man in dark coat, striped vest, and bow tie

Man in formal low-buttoned coat, vest, and necktie

Man in vest and unbuttoned dark suit jacket

Man slightly profile in closed dark coat and necktie

Man with mustache in formal coat and vest

Mustachioed man with right arm on pedestal

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